Saturday, July 18, 2009

A Southern Journey

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A book arrived in the mail today, a copy of the autobiography of Morris Dees, a white Alabaman and highly regarded civil rights attorney; A ...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Art of Gil Evans

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Bandleader Maria Schneider chose a dozen great Gil Evans tracks on a recent post at Jazz.com. Having served as Gil's assistant for seve...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Max and Monk

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Recently I wrote about hearing Dave Brubeck for the first time (see post ). It was 1957 and I was a young teenager living over in Izmir, Tur...
Friday, July 3, 2009

Dark Fields of the Republic

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Faced with the last few pages of a deeply satisfying novel, some readers pause for a moment, almost subconsciously... "Man, I love this...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Corker of a Series

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William Kent Krueger had turned 40 by the time his first novel was published in 1998. That book, Iron Lake , took the mystery world by storm...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

"Folks say he's a hero..."

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One of the very best folk-rock/roots/Americana CDs of the last quarter century is one I didn't know of until three weeks ago; flat out m...
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Friday, June 19, 2009

From Light to Dark

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Ian at the now-renamed Midriff jazz blog recently wrote a pair of posts devoted to the 50th anniversary of Duke Ellington's deceptivel...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Granz Scheme of Things

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Yesterday I was idly wondering why I'd never seen a book about great Jazz impresario Norman Granz. The man was no shrinking violet, by a...
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Professors and Piano-Ticklers

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(see text below pic) Now that I'm no longer a part of Jazz.com, the project I most regret not completing is the Dozens I'd started o...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Eurasian Impressions... and Mine

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I was sick with the flu recently--a strain first diagnosed as Swine but eventually adjudged by the CDC as a different Type-A virus. But it r...
Saturday, May 30, 2009

Spivey Brothers Barbecue

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Thinking of Kansas City and New Orleans and other cities known for spicy food as well as jazz, I concocted some barbecue baked beans a few n...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Missing the Bus

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Marc Myers at jazzwax.com had an intriguing post the other day ( here ), regarding Charles Mingus and his sometimes controversial jazz compo...
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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Beware the Jazzerwhack

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My time at Jazz.com has ended with a sorry thud. I resigned a few days ago. Here's why: For the first several months whatever I wrote wa...